Interview
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Guards

All the way from California, Guards delights us with sunny rock melodies. While listening to 'In Guard we trust', their first album released in February 2013, you might have the feeling to travel back to the 60s. A gentle breeze caress your hair, languorous riffs and penetrating cadency. You cannot help it, you're up effortlessly dancing to the music.

In Paris?
Yeah, my old band used to tour here, all the time. And... it was like 6 years ago or 8 years ago.

Where do you come from originally?
Los Angeles.

What are your influences?
I have a lot of influences, but my favourite bands, you know, that have always kind of been into or like have always kind of stayed the same is like... Stooges, Beatles, Rolling Stones, you know, and like... All the Stax stuff. Lotus Redding... New bands, I love MGMT. Queens of the Stone Age. Ariel Pink, Tame Impala, Cults - my little sister's band.

Oh! It's your sister's band?
I used to play in Cults, yeah, it's my little sister, she's the singer, yeah.

How did you meet MGMT? How did the connection happen?
Andrew came to my old band's show in Texas at SXSW in like 2007 or something. So I've known him for a really long time. And then we just became friends with everybody. James, their guitar player, plays on our record.

So, you just recorded an album?
Kind of, yeah. I mean... Well, it came out here in April, and the States in February. But we were finished way before that, so.

Are you going to tour Europe pretty soon? We hope so.
We're touring it right now! Hahaha.

But your own tour.
Yeah, I don't know. We did, when the album first came out, we did like a bunch of festivals over here, like Primavera, then we did like Field Day in London, and some stuff outside of Paris and France. We did our own show, we played at La Maroquinerie.

That's a great place.
But I don't know how soon we're coming back. I want to make a new record. I want to make a new album, so.